If the private sector is doing it, should the government get out?

In a major address about the economy, GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty proposed the "Google test": if you can find a good or service available on the internet, the government probably doesn't need to be providing that good or service. Is this a good test? Why or why not?

American Experiment's Peter Nelson debates these and other questions on privatization on MPR's Midday with Dane Smith, the President of Growth & Justice.